Sports Briefs: Sosa gets hearing

CHICAGO - Sammy Sosa's appeal of an eight-game suspension for using a corked bat will be held today in Baltimore. The Cubs don't expect an immediate decision, the team said Monday.

The appeal will be heard by Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer.

Chicago will face the Baltimore Orioles today at Camden Yards.

Sosa was suspended for eight games Friday by Bob Watson, baseball's vice president in charge of discipline, but the appeal allows him to play until he has a hearing and a ruling is made.

Hornets choose Floyd

NEW ORLEANS - Tim Floyd was hired Monday as coach of the Hornets after one of the worst three-year stretches in NBA history with the Chicago Bulls.

Floyd, who lives in the city and once coached the University of New Orleans, reached agreement with the Hornets earlier in the day. Terms of the contract were not announced.

Team vice president Bob Bass began a news conference by announcing the hiring with a statement downplaying Floyd's 49-190 record in Chicago, calling the situation with the Bulls "very difficult."

Injury shelves Swoopes

HOUSTON - Comets star and former Texas Tech All-American Sheryl Swoopes will be out two to three weeks with a sprained right ankle.

The two-time league most valuable player honoree was injured during a 65-58 loss at Connecticut on Saturday, the team said Monday.

Swoopes was hurt while contesting the Sun's Nykesha Sales for a loose ball under the Comets' basket. As Swoopes jumped for the ball, Sales fell and Swoopes landed awkwardly on her.

Kansas to name AD

STORRS, Conn. - Lew Perkins, who orchestrated Connecticut's rise as a national basketball power and upgraded the football program from Division I-AA to I-A, is expected to be named the new athletics director at Kansas today.

His departure comes three months before the Huskies' much-anticipated football kickoff in the 40,000-seat, $90 million Rentschler Field in East Hartford. More than 20,000 season tickets have been sold.

Griese passes physical

DAVIE, Fla. - Brian Griese followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Miami Dolphins on Monday, signing a two-year contract with the team after passing a physical.

The former Denver Broncos starting quarterback, who agreed to the deal Friday, will earn $530,000 in base salary this season plus a $1 million signing bonus.

The second year of the deal will cost the Dolphins more than $6 million in salary-cap space, meaning the team would either have to release Griese, restructure his deal or make him the starter.

Actually several of them, but none bigger than the one that found the hole from about 100 feet at the par-5 13th. The eagle swung the momentum back to the South African, and he held off Duffy Waldorf on Monday to win the FBR Capital Open.

Sabbatini shot a 68 for a 14-under 270 on the par-71 TPC at Avenel course.